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Catalog of sporting books in the library of James Wilson Rimington-Wilson, 1866, Accession #11070, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
The catalog was purchased by the Library from H.P. Kraus, New York City, on November 10, 1992, and was transferred from the Manuscripts Division to the Rare Books Division to be housed with the books in the Scott Sporting Books Collection.
The catalog was formerly from the libraries of A.N.L. Munby, with his bookplate, and Hans Peter Kraus, with his bookplate. Part of Rimington-Wilson's collection was sold by his son at Sotheby's, February 27- 28, 1928, in conjunction with his famous chess library.
This collection consists of a bound manuscript catalog, 1866, of the sporting books in James Wilson Rimington-Wilson's (1822-1877) library from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, containing 98 pages, of which thirty are blank. The catalog, which has covers of blue-grey diced cloth, is generally divided into subjects including falconry, archery, hunting, riding, fishing, dueling, fencing, training and diet, pugilism, and skating.
The catalog covers books from the 16th to the 19th centuries and is divided into sections by subject.